Let's be honest for a hot minute; adults are busy and they tend to not have time for much. We work a lot, we have other obligations, we have family that we need to be in contact with on a regular basis, you get the idea. But there's one thing every adult needs to ask themselves: when was the last time you took any time for yourselves? What I mean by that is, when was the last time you took some time to not worry about obligations and just relaxed? There's a high chance that most adults today do not remember the last time they did this, and it's becoming a serious problem.

We currently live in an economy where most people have no choice but to work long hours in order to make ends meet, which has resulted in many people glorifying working ourselves to exhaustion to death. I can understand these people, considering that I'm struggling myself to make ends meet and find a better job, but I am trying my absolute hardest to make as much time for myself to relax as I possibly can. I'm trying my hardest to live as healthy of a life as I can.

When I see friends who are clearly deprived of sleep, coming to work or school tired or having only two hours of sleep the night before, and still putting more obligations on their plate to the point where time for themselves was pretty much nonexistent, and the changes in their mental health shows. All of this makes me worry about my friends and has made me worry about myself too because there have been times I thought I would have been putting too much on my plate too, especially during my college years.

When I was in college, I would be balancing school, a part-time job, sometimes an internship, several shows at once, and during my later semesters, an e-board and a chair position. I wouldn't think about how this was affecting me mentally because all I would think about is how these were going to help build my resume and how good it will look to recruiters. This has affected my mental health in the long run and has resulted in me losing interest in doing things that I once loved doing. Finding time for myself was pretty much impossible at the time.

When I see friends of mine who are clearly exhausted when I see them, I get worried about them and there's a reason why. They are clearly overworked and many people see that as no big deal because everyone is pretty much overworked in this day in age. This needs to stop and more people need to take more time for themselves and to relax. Not only they will feel better and more well-rested, but it's an underrated form of self-care that everyone tends to take for granted.